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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Axens technologies

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Axens technologies

July 5, 2024 |

Axens offers today the largest portfolio for renewable technology deployment, providing efficient, reliable and flexible technologies to convert biomass into high quality and low-carbon alternative products for the transportation sector as well as the chemical industry. Axens’ David Schwalje presented these slides at ABLC 2024.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Utility Global

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Utility Global

June 21, 2024 |

Claus Nussgruber, the CEO of Utility Global, made his ABLC debut with this look at the hydrogen landscape and in particular the eXEROtechnology platform, with the promise of electrolysis without costly and hard to secure electricity. And the H2Gen system rapidly progressing towards commercialization in 2026.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen

June 14, 2024 |

Bioprocessing solutions for next gen biorefineries is what MetGen is about, and this illuminating slide guide from ABLC 2024 highlights how they maximize the value for biomass, de-bottleneck a biorefinery, all about the enzymatic lignin fractionation process, their commercial roadmap, and more. CEO Alex Michine is the incisive presenter here.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Policy, the ABFA perspective

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Policy, the ABFA perspective

June 8, 2024 |

In this presentation by Advanced Biofuels Association president Mike McAdams, we learn about matching policy with real-world reality using the basic tool box of tax credits, grants, loans, mandates and the RFS. We see policy issues such as “numbers don’t reflect reality,” available feedstocks are threatened, and there is over reliance in policy on technologies […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to DME

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to DME

May 31, 2024 |

From hairspray propellant to chemical commodity In this presentation by Jan-Willem Konemann of TNO, we learn about Sorption Enhanced DME Synthesis, which can transform the conversion efficiency of DME production from CO2 by a factor of 15 by removing water in-situ.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Jen-Zero System for High Pressure Gasification of Advanced Biofuels 

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Jen-Zero System for High Pressure Gasification of Advanced Biofuels 

May 26, 2024 |

Gasification of biomass continues to be an area of high challenge and high opportunity in the bioeconomy as the industry searches for a reliable system for handling wastes and residues (not nicely cut woodchips) at commercial-scale, for feeding into high pressure reactors. Problems such as arching and ratholing have impacted the success rates of feed […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to standardized eMethanol production

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to standardized eMethanol production

May 19, 2024 |

Flemming Kanstrup and Robert Buckley-Mellor of Topsoe and Worley respectively presented these slides at ABLC 2024 on new revenue for biogenic CO2 via eMethanol — highlighting that market maturity breaks the barriers to entry for producers and offtakers, such as eMethanol marine engines that are readily available.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to IEA Bioenergy and Task 40

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to IEA Bioenergy and Task 40

May 14, 2024 |

IEA Bioenergy Task 40: Deployment of biobased value chains (in the triennium 2016-2018 known as ‘Sustainable biomass markets and international bioenergy trade to support the biobased economy’), commonly abbreviated Task 40, was established under the International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy Implementing Agreement in December 2003 with the aim of focusing on international bioenergy technology potential, […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to meeting SAF demand with ethanol-to-jet technology

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to meeting SAF demand with ethanol-to-jet technology

May 10, 2024 |

To achieve net zero by 2050, SAF production needs to increase quickly and substantially, says Omar Hamid, Group Manager, Low Carbon Fuels at Worley Consulting in presenting these slides at ABLC 2024 on technology transition. He notes that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has set a decarbonization plan, and that announced SAF projects estimate […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Linde

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Linde

May 8, 2024 |

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2021 sales of $31 billion (€26 billion). The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications such as hydrogen for clean fuels. Linde also […]

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